Get a file with FTP
Description
The Get a file with FTP action retrieves one or more files from an FTP server.
This workflow action does not "crawl" systems.
It will not, for example, access a remote directory and go to other directories to find files that match a wildcard.
This workflow retrieves files from one directory exclusively.
Options
General tab
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Action name | The name of the workflow action. |
Server | |
FTP server name/IP address | The name of the server or the IP address. |
Server Port | Port number of the FTP server. |
Username | The user name associated with FTP server account. |
Password | The password associated the FTP server account. |
Proxy host | Proxy server host name. |
Proxy port | Proxy server port number. |
Proxy username | Proxy server account user name. |
Proxy password | Proxy server account password. |
Advanced | |
Binary mode | Enable if files must be transferred in binary mode. |
Timeout | The FTP server timeout in seconds. |
Use Active FTP connection | Enable if you are connecting to the FTP server using Active mode; you must set your firewall to accept connections to the port that your FTP client will open. The default is Passive mode. |
Control Encoding | Encoding matters when retrieving file names that contain special characters. For Western Europe and the USA, ISO-8859-1 usually suffices. Select encoding that is valid for your server. |
Files tab
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Remote | |
Remote directory | The remote directory on FTP server from which files are taken. |
Wildcard (regular expression) | Regular expression when you want to select multiple files. For example: .txt$ : get all text files A.ENG:0-9.txt : files starting with A, ending with a number and .txt |
Remove files after retrieval | Remove the files on the FTP server, but only after all selected files have been successfully transferred. |
Move files after retrieval | Move the files on the FTP server to the folder specified below, but only after all selected files have been successfully transferred. |
Move to Folder | Moves files to specified folder on the server. |
Create Folder | Creates folder that will contain files. |
Local | |
Target Directory | The directory where you want to place the retrieved files. |
Include date in filename | Adds the system date to the filename (_20101231). |
Include time in filename | Adds the system time to the filename (_235959). |
Specify date time format | Enable to provide your own date/time format; the default is yyyyMMdd'_'HHmmss |
Date time format | Select date time format. |
Add date before extension | Adds date to the file name before the extension. |
Don’t overwrite files | Enable to skip, rename, or fail if a file with an identical name already exists in the target directory. |
If file exists | Action to take if a file with an identical name already exists in the target directory. |
Add filenames to result | Enable to add the file name(s) read to the result of this workflow. |